Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-28
FOREIGN.
THE EARTHQUAKE.
Further Accounts of the Fearful Catas.
trOphe in Southern Europe.

trOphe in Southern Europe.
New YORK, February 9th. = G. W.
! Smalley's cable special to the Tribune from
London of February 26th says: Narrowing
accounts of scenes on the Riviera fill Eng
| fish papers, relieved by occasional evidence
| of courage and good sense. Amid the gen
| eral panic the Americans seemed to have
| kept their heads when the foreigners lost
theirs l have seen several American tele-
grams from Cannes, Monte Carlo and other
points, asking why expected guests do not
come, and answering friends questions by
saying that there is no reason for leaving
the Riviera. The Prince of Wales showed
admirable. tranquility, while those about
him were most agitated. He arrived in
Paris this morning. where he goes tonight
with a party of French friends to the
Gymnase Theater to see Jane Harding in
= La Countess Sarah" lie leaves for Lon
don Sunday night.
All the members of the family.of the
Mayor of Bsjardo were killed. OF another
family, consisting OF twenty-five persons,
named Maestri, only single member half
demented, is left. Halfclothed people are
wandering on the sea shore, exposed
to the inclement weather At Diano
Marine a weman and child We're taken out
alive, after being entombed three days.
Groans can still be heard in the ruins, espe-
cially in the via Garibaid.
The loss of oil was valued at $500, 900.
and the losses on other property are heavy
Oneglia is threatened with storm of
rain or SHOW, which will cause fearful dis
tress, although clothing and supplies Of all
kinds are beginning to arrive in ample
quantities from Genoa. Tents for The
refugees are being erected, and volunteers
Slarph nQrttpc nIpntItnl The
activity of the Genoese doctors is beyond
praise A boy who was entombed three
days was rescued unhurt in bed. Nobody
enters house who is able to obtain shelter
elsewhere. Only new aud well built
houses are ha5itable.
The panic was renewed at Genoa to-day,
on a false report that Father Denza had
predicted another shock, both there and at
Savona. The people refuse to return to
their houses, and they sleep in improvised
places of shelter.
Slight oscillations were felt o-day at AL
benga and Porto Maurzio.
Relief committees are being organized
throughout the country, but il is impc i
BILE 10 supply the numerous wants. A bill
will beinToduced in Parliament for a credit
of 81 COG goo for relief purposes.
CROWDS OF pEsPAIRING MEN AND WOMEN.
ROME, February 2Ith.-TroopS have been
compelled to keep back at the point of the
bayonet the crowds of despairing men and
women, who were impeding the work of
excavation, in their efforts TO find missing
relatives The bodies of the victims of the
disaster are terribly disigured. The suf-
terings of the survivors are great, the sup
ply of provisions and drugs and ambulance
apparatus being painfully inadequate. The
work Of rescuers is attended with consider
able danger. In some cases they have been
obliged to flee from lettering walls, al
though they could hear the groans of the
victims buried beneath the debris.
HEARTRENDING DErAILs-ANoTHER PANIC.
ROME, February 27th.-The heartrend-
ing details of the disaster caused by the
earthquakes continue to arrive. At Diano-
Marine, to-day, child aged u years, and
her father, were extricated from the debris,
when the latter expired upon the spot.
The survivors at Diano-Marino say that
majority of the victims were killed by the
second shock, the people having re-entered
their houses to procure clothing. The sum
of $1,000 has been found in the ruins
there. Bodies wrapped in shrouds lie in
the middle of the streets.
MORE EARTHQUAKES PREDICTED.
VIENxA. February 27th.-Prof Fabb pre-